This visualization of Doctor Who villains since 1963 will tell you:

India unveils a new symbol for the Rupee.

Interesting interview with the economist Dan Ariely on why online dating is so unsatisfying:

Online dating is becoming the poster child for a class of problems that software / the web is really, really bad at solving.

Bruno Maag doesn’t pull his punches in this interview about Aktiv, his Helvetica-killer:

…Max Miedinger [Helvetica’s designer] didn’t have a clue about type design. He was the salesman at [foundry] Haas’sche Schriftgießerei for Christ’s sake.

Ouch.

Eric Joyner paints retro-looking toy robots and donuts exclusively, like Too Many Choices II from 2008:

Red is less than 19 MPH.

What an arrogant bunch of vectors…. (Via httf)

Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists. And if UFOs are actually ball lightning, then does the X-Files ultimately owe its popularity to lightning storms?

In a fascinating bit of amateur lexical analysis, Stephen Von Worley created this color strata image, using data collected from XKCD‘s Color Survey:

Sadly, pistachio, a hue that’s notoriously difficult to pin down, is nowhere to be found. Spencer Finch will be disappointed.

If anyone’s interested in the actual linguistics behind color names, Berlin & Kay’s Basic Color Terms (Amazon link) is the seminal work, although I’m pretty sure they didn’t discover color names like baige [sic], puke, or butter yellow.

This infographic of one person’s sleep patterns over nine years is fascinating: